At times I slip into a world where my expectations fail to match reality. This week, I lived in that world. I returned from Tulum high on life. My plan following the Live Love Teach training was to swoop in on my magic yoga mat like a benevolent yogi superhero, saving the world one Sun [...]
I spent the last 5 days in Tulum, Mexico for a yoga teacher training called LIVE LOVE TEACH. I kept my plans under wraps, because I have learned from experience that announcing a trip before it actually happens makes my internal organs want to sneak out of my body. I love yoga. It is the [...]
I am a runner. Well, I WAS a runner, and then I had a total colectomy. Prior to my surgery, running was as natural to me as showering –I did it about six days a week. During the times I was not training for something, I averaged about 30-40 miles a week. I was a [...]
Disclaimer: This is a Debbie Downer entry. I apologize in advance. My Aunt Terry died on Thursday after being diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in her liver only six weeks ago. “Aunt Terry died.” It is weird to see that in writing. I thought it would make it feel more real, but it just looks [...]
I recently stumbled upon an old article from Glamour Magazine entitled 7 Friends Every Woman Needs. Included in the Top 7 were categories like “The 9-5 Work Friend,” “The New Friend,” etc. I would like to add an 8th category: “The College Friend.” My old roommates spent last weekend at my house for our alma mater’s [...]
I am in an awesome writing group led by the incredibly talented yogi/writer/actress/Wonder Woman Jennifer Schelter of Yoga Schelter in Philadelphia. I always learn something in these sessions, but this Saturday’s group was a real eye-opener. We discussed writing as truth telling, and explored what it means to REALLY tell the truth: the messy, uncomfortable, [...]
This weekend I watched one of my best friends, my cousin Beth, get married. We have grown up together, and over the years we have remained as close as sisters. She is beautiful, brainy, and benevolent. In my mind, God had yet to create a guy worthy of her awesomeness. Then, she met Keith. When [...]
There was a time in my life when I was a regular at the yoga studio. Then I had a kid. By the time Emma was 2 ½ and enrolled in morning preschool a few mornings a week, I started to get my yoga groove back, attending classes with some regularity. I was so grateful [...]
I have never been much of a joiner. Group activities make me nervous. When I am nervous things typically do not go well: I talk too loud and too much, I sweat through my shirt, one time I peed my pants in Cardio Kickboxing I just kind of lose control of myself. When Emma was [...]
I grew up in a family where respect was a big thing. You respected your elders because they were, you know, old. Policemen, doctors and priests were especially high up there on the respect totem pole. Maybe it because they all wore some kind of uniform- they just seemed more official than someone wearing jeans [...]
